There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
JOHN STUART MILLAll silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes–will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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